Music festivals have exploded in the past several years as “cultural experiences” became a new substitute for vacations and young promoters, risky talent buyers and venture capitalists sought to cash in on the trend. And when the sandbox gets crowded or too many new people come to the playground – some familiar faces escape to new landscapes…or in this case, seascapes. While terrestrial festivals may be a saturated market, days worth of concerts on the open seas are not. A few niche promoters, like Cloud 9 Adventures, jumped in the unpopulated waters early and had success with events like JamCruise. Parlaying their proof of concept, they partnered with the HARD […]

Coachella and Sasquatch! have come and gone, but those were just the appetizers for a packed summer festival season that kicks into high gear in June with Free Press Summer Fest May 31-June 1 in Houston, Governors Ball June 6-8 in New York, Bonnaroo June 12-15 in Manchester, Tenn. and Sled Island June 18-22 in Calgary, just to name a few on our radar. While these multi-day music bashes are chiefly Meccas of fun for music lovers, they’re also tests of endurance and sanity.

Both weekends of the 2014 edition of Coachella have come and gone, and all that’s left to do now is reminisce and count down the days until 2015. Yet the traditionally two-dimensional way we process that nostalgia – primarily by uploading photos to Facebook and tagging our friends and scroll back to our best Instagrammed selfies – has drastically changed with Thursday’s launch of VRation.

After some brutal triple-digit temperatures throughout Day 1 of the 15th annual Coachella fest’s first weekend, Day 2 thankfully began with noticeably milder heat. Any resulting enjoyment, however, was relatively short-lived: by 5 p.m., winds had reached near 25 mph, bringing in threatening clouds of loose sediment.

Forgive us, dear Lyynks readers, for the delay in posting Coachella coverage. There is so much talent packed into Weekend 1’s schedule – particularly in the early hours of each day – that plowing ahead with the Indio, Calif. fest’s unmatchably magical desert experience has become the priority over posting.

The 15th annual Coachella Music & Arts Festival will mark the launch of 2014’s landslide of summer music festivals when Weekend 1 kicks off this Friday. It’s also the first instance of Outkast‘s much anticipated and lengthy reunion run, a must see for most heading out to Indio. Now that organizers have announced official set times, there are (as usual) a fair number of scheduling conflicts.

Coachella released its 2014 lineup yesterday, and if you haven’t heard, you probably avoid Facebook, Twitter, the internet in general … and possibly other human beings. So rather than bore you with calling out what you can easily read on the poster above, here are five stray thoughts

Coachella just revealed its lineup via Facebook and the reaction from most people tracking speculations on the two-weekend fest for the past few months was a resounding: “Cool, but I’m not at all surprised.” custom writing paper That relatively even-keeled response is connected primarily to the fact that the headliners were practically revealed months ago.